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  • Fluente em: Afrikaans, English, Greek (modern); aprendendo: German, Zulu
  • 37, Masculino
  • Membro desde 2017
  • Digital Nomad
  • high school, some college
  • De Durban North, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Perfil 70% concluído

Sobre Mim

""Many and sharp the num'rous ills
Inwoven with our frame!
More pointed still we make ourselves,
Regret, remorse, and shame!
And man, whose heav'n-erected face
The smiles of love adorn, -
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn! ."
- RB
I have literally written and deleted what I had written about 5 or 6 times now. I'm not a very complicated person, anything that anyone is interested in knowing I am more than happy to divulge through conversation, so feel free to send a message any time, I'm always happy meeting new people who may share my interests.

I am fully fluent in both Greek and English , as I was born and raised in South Africa but have a Greek heritage and have been living in Greece for the past several years full time.

Just to say a few words about me. I consider knowledge and openness/honesty to be the most important things to me. I am an INTP-A personality type. I love reading, and learning new things. I absorb everything like a sponge, and end up teaching myself new skills along the way. AT the same time im a simple person, looking for simple things out of life. I have my passions, and hobbies and music. I love travelling, i spent a few years travelling around the world and was in the military for a stint in africa.

I saw a lot of things, good and bad and have lived through a lot. I believe that these things havent broken me or made me stronger, but rather just made me as i am. Right or wrong i am who and what i am, and i accept that, but strive to better myself, continually.

I live an alternative, non traditional life in general. Or at least i believe i do, i could be wrong. These things happen.

I am an atheist, and an existential nihilist to boot, but i do love reading and learning about other cultures, religions, traditions. I am especially interested in the Greek, Norwegian and African Cultures, as those are the cultures of my ancestors. I like to know who i come from. The Norse Mythology is one of my favourites, i must admit.

I am also an anarchist, politically speaking - but not in the neo-anarchistic way of lets go to the streets and break shit, no. I prefer the older, philosophical anarchism. The real one.

Finally, I'm a writer. So i spend a lot, if not all my free time typing something or other, be it here or on various other sites. I like to practice as much as i can, in an effort to develop my voice as a writer.

I apologise for the somewhat haphazard display of my inner thoughts, but this is how my brain works, too many threads that i need to pull at. Regardless, i hope that this wasnt too tiring for you, if you bothered to read it to the end.
If you did however, Good on ya

Por que estou no Couchsurfing?

Just looking to meet more people in the city around me, fellow travelers like me, and be aware of opportunities for lodging

Interesses

  • writing
  • street art
  • reading
  • punk music
  • watching movies
  • punk
  • old movies
  • punk rock
  • ska
  • hardcore music
  • hardcore punk

Músicas, Filmes e Livros

Music - Im an old school punk. I grew up listening, among other things, to hardcore and oi. AFter that, i listen to anything that sounds good to me. I prefer stoner/blues/southern type sounds.

Books. - depends. Ive read and enjoyed star wars novels and bukowski and been equally enthralled and learned as much. I like books tht make you think, or that expand on the character of man more.

Movies: same as books

Uma Coisa Incrível que Eu Fiz

Too many to fit in this bubble. Cant even think to say which is the most amazing, to me. There will always be something new on the horizon

Ensine, Aprenda, Compartilhe

How can i help? What can i do? What do you need? Have you tried doing this???

What i need? What i need is for everyone to back the fuck off, and stop assuming im in a tough situation because of come evil vice like drugs, or alcohol, or gambling or even just bad handling of money. No. sometimes bad things happen for no fucking reason.

Sometimes in the infinite randomness of the universe, a series of extremely unlucky events befalls certain individuals, maybe its someone you know. Or even someone that a friend of yours knows. Its always someone else, someone we dont really know and ultimately dont miss or cant miss when they disappear.

Do you ever think about them? Maybe when walking out of the super market, and on your way out you see the bins to 'feed the homeless'.
"Splendid" you think to yourself, as you slip in the 52 cent pack of pasta you bought but decided, rather last second on a whim, to donate it to some poor soul who if he is living on the street wont be able to cook the fucking thing.

And lets be honest, if you have resigned yourself to living on the street, odds are you have already, and will continue to, eat food from the trash. Or anything people leave out for the homeless and generally poor to get while rooting around in your trash. You've seen it, those little bags of leftovers hanging from the municipal bins, no doubt sitting in the sun all day - gathering maggots and flies as it slowly turns - and we all know that some poor fucker will feast on that like its the most scrumptiously delicious thing he's ever eaten. Or like a wild, starved fucking animal.

No my friends, what someone in that situation needs is routine. A place to, if not on the daily at least weekly, change his clothes, take a shower and know that he or she (and again, lets be honest. When is the last time you saw something other than a white 40 something male homeless person in Greece? I mean, Holy Shit, i thought women had it just as bad as men, but i dont see them rooting around in the trash, or trying to sleep on a park bench while the police and public take advantage of their defeated nature and just exile them to the outskirts of human society. The fringe. And you want to know what my personal experience was? What i missed while i slept and will sleep on a frozen bench on some rainy night? The fucking shiter. I miss being able to sit down on a toilet, relax my colon and just let rip everything inside. Then after about 5 groan and filthy smell filled minutes, id light a match then wash out my arsehole in the bath. That. Funny right? Not so funny when every meal you eat you think "fuck where am i going to expel this now", or every sip you take is "what building or trashcan am i pissing against now, its not even night time"

These are people who for some reason, and that reason is usually out of their control, end up help less and without anyone. They arent all junkies, or drunks, or crazy people, or uneducated lazy fucks. Some of them just have no one, and in today's day you can spend your entire life working 30 hours a day, earning next to nothing just to pay rent to go back tomorrow and do it all over again.Where you work yourself to the bone to get by and if even one pay-cheque doesnt gets delayed, your carefully constructed system of delayed municipal and rent payments will crumble and devolve into just a pile of dog shit.

Dont be quick to judge.

Or do, im not the boss of you.

Alls im saying is that if you stop for a fucking minute and get your ostrich like head out your fucking arsehole to take a look around at the world around you, you would notice that every single person around you is a complex being with even more complex problems and underlying issues. You dont like that? Tough.

Lastly, something that really gets to me is this: I tell someone im homeless, he immediately looks down at my shoes and assesses my clothes. Not all homeless people are helpless, dirty smelly broken people you pass by and ignore as if they were some piece of trash. but they arent, they are human. And they feel things. Just. Like. You.

Im a fucking african. I can survive on the streets. I was bought up on them and with this mentality. I carry on because its all i know. If that bothers you, and i dont give two shits if it does, its a free world, but if it does - fuck yourself. Get the fuck off manuscript. Get the fuck out of my face. And just forget about me rather, or remember that im just a loser homeless fuck, if that will make you feel better about your life. If comparing yourself to me is how you measure yourself, then all i can say is this:
Aim the bar a little higher next time. Im a no one who came from nothing and ill fade into nothing again. Already as i type this, people i have met long ago are in the process of physically forgetting - due to their brain not creating the connecting synapses often enough. Memory is like muscle (one made of electrical pulses though ahah), when you dont flex that memory, it atrophies.

Remember what matters most. Love unconditionally. Never put off looking at a sunset because it might be your last.

O Que Posso Compartilhar com Anfitriões

im good with technology, i can help out around the house and im very handy fixing most about anything

Países que Visitei

Angola, China, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, United Kingdom, United States

Países em que Morei

Greece, South Africa, United Kingdom

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